So I’ve found. It was worse when I ordered for my last house. I ordered the Levitons that are now like $50/piece, they were $75-80 each. I’m just biting the bullet to do them all now and get it over with. I live in a community, so electricians are around on a daily basis. It’ll be easy to have them just swap em all out.
I’m attempting to reach out to HomeSeer directly too and see if they’ll help out. Told em I’d praise and highlight their switches online in the home automation space and giving theme almost $1k of direct business. If they could even offer one of their 10% coupons I’ve seen at times, that’d be perfect especially with their 3 and 5 packs that save a few bucks too. But I’ll see what that HAWorldOnline will do too. Thanks for the tip!
I’m in Canada and the first two switches i purchased were $70+HST. I live close to the US and will be ordering/picking up my next order in the US. Even with our exchange rate it comes out to a saving.
Interesting conversation, guys. I’m doing my home upgrade one item at a time (and, as a result, in the least cost-effective manner possible…).
If you’re looking for a way to indicate that the lights are about to go off, I suggest a quick blink about a minute before they do so. I’m using this technique in my garage, and it works very well with incandescent (oh, the horror!) bulbs. It might not work quite as well with dimmers (can they even blink?) or LEDs (which react to a blink in power very quickly and may frighten instead of inform).
I’ve written up the state machine which runs this in a post here.
That’s the best way to do it! I’ve had my switches for about a month as well as door sensors and have spent every evening tweaking the code and i can say i’m finally happy with everything. I’m over 1000 lines of code just to control my dimmer syncing and when the door open/closes for light scene plus presence. Its all starting to come together.
If you try to do too much at once it just complicates things greatly - getting to a stage your happy with and add on after that is the best way imo. I’m just starting to look into getting more dimmers to complete my house/garage soffit lighting and want to get my kitchen automated with some motion sensors. (Lights left on when no ones in the room drives me nuts so i want to deal with that as a room presence/motion rule)
I was toying with the idea of going zigbee for individual light control to deal with a notification type system. Went as far as briding my smartthings hub with OH2 to have dual communication in both directions from each via mqtt and tested it out. It works good, but it starts getting overly complicated when you have a fixture with multiple lights in it. Ended up returning my demo zigbee bulb and will go the dimmer switch route for everything i think.
The problem with using the dimmer switch as a “blink” won’t work due to these switches having a ramp up; increase x% every x ms. So the change in value isn’t instant.
I might still end up going with zigbee, maybe a single GU10 pot light that is solely used as a indicator at my house entrance. Undecided. Its not the end of the world but i want to be able to know/do almost everything without having to touch my phone to see specific items. or a
Ya they offered me the 5%, and I received a notification via email a few hours later - one of those abandoned cart type notifications for extra discount if I want to come back and finish my order. LoL. So I did it, and just pulled the trigger to get it done/over with for now. It’s too much to have to wait until they come into stock at SmartHome - only net myself $85 savings overall anyway. Amazing process time though - ordered Thur evening, Notification they shipped Friday mid-day/afternoon, and apparently they’re on the truck for delivery today!
PS - If anyone is looking to pickup some GE 12722/12723/12724’s - please message me. I’m going to try and list on eBay, we all know I’ll be losing money there too. I’d love to give someone in the OH world a discount on these for direct transactions than pay eBay/PayPal.
Was the abandoned cart discountgreater 5%?were you able to stack the coupon code above i gave u ontop of it? I want to order 5 switches and want the extra discount ontop of 5% lol
Unfortunately I’m not sure, I didn’t try putting it in as it said not combined with any other offers. I’d assume once you put one code in, they won’t take any more, but you can certainly try. I’m attempting to get another abandoned cart offer today as I screwed up and missed ordering 2 accessory switches. Sadly, I spent enough but I’m $7 shy of getting another $5 off reward coupon … so I’m contemplating just buying 1 to get me over the hump then buy another with the coupons at almost $0. Just gotta weigh the shipping cost.
